This is an analysis of the poem Dave Lilly that begins with:
There's a brook on the side of Greylock that used to be full of trout,
But there's nothing there now but minnows; they say it is all fished out.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gcgaa hhcc aadd ddaa iijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010101100101 1110111101100111 111100101110001 11101011001001011 110111011101101 111101101010111 1101001010011111 1111011011001011 110111011111101 111101011011011 1111111011101111 1110101101110011 010111101010101 111001110 111101111 111010100010101 11101011000100101 1101010010101111 0100111111101001 1010111101101101 1011100100100111001 11010011110101 110010010111001001 11111010010101 111010011110101 00101111100111 11100011011001111 101011101100111 111010101110101 111100101101001 110110101110111 110111011110101 111101010001011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, he, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
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